Access Control

First Place

IR Security

Migrating from mechanical locks to electronic locking systems, which provide new flexibilities, heightened security, and lower costs, is the first step toward total, integrated access control. Individual doors become part of an overall system, using the same or mixed credentials.

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Second Place

Hirsch

Acoustical Ceilings

First Place

Armstrong

"As more owners desire to make a design statement in their buildings, they are looking at acoustical ceilings other than the traditional variety," says Joann Davis Brayman, vice president of marketing, Armstrong Commercial Ceilings.

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Second Place

USG

AED

First Place, Tie

ZOLL

ZOLL Medical Corporation is dedicated to advancing the practice of resuscitation by using the latest technology advances in its products. Including Real CPR Help™ in AEDs has been a contributing factor to ZOLL’s success.

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First Place, Tie

Medtronic

As the leader in defibrillation with over 500,000 units in use, Medtronic continuously strives to improve its LIFEPAK® automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and solution services. Medtronic’s goal is to provide the right equipment and services for each customer’s specific needs.

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Second Place

Philips Medical

Badging

First Place

Identicard

Identicards are more durable than traditional smart cards and offer security professionals practical solutions for security management demands. Whether being used for access control systems or for tracking personal data, IDentiSMART provides an immediate and effective option for facility managers who are concerned with keeping their buildings safe and secure all the time.

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Second Place

Datacard

Building Automation Systems

First Place

Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls offers building automation systems that can do more—from connectivity and interoperability with other manufacturers’ equipment to seamless integration with an organization’s information technology architecture to wireless building controls. The goal is to reduce operating costs and improve productivity for every facility manager.

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Second Place

Honeywell

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery/Crisis Management

First Place

IBM Global Services

In an economy of tight budgets, organizations are striving to achieve global connectivity in a working environment where travel is difficult, harness vast amounts of information, and achieve true collaboration with customers, partners, suppliers, and other employees. IBM provides strategy and design, content management, governance strategy and execution, to help implement a comprehensive workplace solution.

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Second Place

Fireman’s Fund Insurance

CAFM

First Place

Autodesk

Autodesk is committed to developing innovative solutions that help facility management customers improve productivity and realize their ideas. Autodesk will introduce new products in 2006 that address the specific needs of facility management professionals.

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Second Place

Facility Wizards

Carpet (Broadloom)

First Place

Lees

“Lees Carpets’ design philosophy revolves around the concept of fitness for use. The company’s products are engineered to inspire, using the finest and most sustainable materials and processes. Color, texture, and pattern are blended to create visually appealing aesthetics for specific commercial environments,” says Bob Hutchison, vice president of product development for The Mohawk Group (owner of Lees).

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Second Place

Shaw

Carpet (Modular)

First Place

Mohawk

The Mohawk Group is committed to manufacturing a full range of floor covering products that are attractive and functional. With regard to modular flooring, Mohawk’s versatile collections offer the flexibility to be combined with other patterns and installed in multiple directions allowing for greater design flexibility. The company’s Ultra Performance System offers a lifetime warranty against raveling and the hard tile backing, UltraSet Modular Systems, garners superior performance while lasting longer in facilities.

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Second Place

Milliken

Carpet Fibers/ Treatments

First Place

Antron

“Antron® carpet fiber products are developed with quality as a top priority. The company continues to bring new innovations to the market such as StainRESIST™ to meet customers’ needs for superior performance and long-term durability. This is an excellent way to create long-term sustainable solutions,” says Georgina Sikorski, Antron Brand Manager.

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Second Place

Shaw

CCTV

First Place

Panasonic

Panasonic Security Systems offers “Intelligent Technology” including the new i-Pro Series of professional networking systems and SDIII analog imaging technology. The company’s “Open Infrastructure” initiative provides customers with expanded security solutions.

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Second Place

Pelco

CMMS

First Place

MRO Software

Maximo components are built on Sun Microsystem’s Java technology, specifically the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (“J2EE”), to take full advantage of today’s enterprise environment. J2EE provides application portability, scalability, interoperability, and security models for Internet applications. Maximo’s use of open standards supports a broad range of server platforms, network operating systems, and communications protocols. These open standards provide customers with the flexibility to match their computing resources to their needs and facilitates tight integration to critical business systems.

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Second Place

FM:Systems

Conference Room Furnishings

First Place

Allsteel

At Allsteel, details are designed into every product that helps employees work more comfortably, efficiently, and effectively in an environment that inspires. With customer feedback throughout, the result is product design that solves problems.

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Second Place

Steelcase

Door Hardware/Locks

First Place

Schlage Lock

The Schlage King Cobra Family offers iButton credential in addition to a keypad for gaining access. The iButton credential elevates security by requiring a user to present a credential and a code. Because iButtons are nearly impossible to duplicate, unauthorized access becomes a thing of the past. When an iButton is lost or stolen, it can be easily deleted from the lock and a new one re-issued, which will reduce service calls for facility managers.

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Second Place

Sargent

Electronics/ Communications

First Place

Motorola

Motorola’s design philosophy is a marriage of the emotion and rationality where both must be satisfied using strong, definitive forms to establish the look and feel of collections. The angular and rounded forms of the Motorola RAZR are influenced by the whole portfolio. Instead of changing looks all the time, Motorola has the confidence to use a consistent design language.

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Second Place

Panasonic

Elevators/Escalators

First Place

Schindler

Schindler manufactures and installs elevators, escalators, and moving walks.The company also provides maintenance and modernization services for all brands of elevator and escalator equipment. Schinder’s highly skilled service technicians utilize hand held computers for faster dispatching, troubleshooting, messaging, and parts ordering.

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Second Place

Kone

Energy Management

First Place

Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls offers a comprehensive approach to energy management, which includes supply and demand services such as energy audits and high quality employee training programs. The company institutes technologies that monitor energy use and help conserve resources while implementing innovative new solutions that help to ensure facilities are more comfortable for management as well as the occupants while striving to be energy efficient.

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Second Place

Generac Power Systems

Energy Services

First Place

Constellation Energy

Constellation NewEnergy Online can be customized to accommodate customers of all sizes. When matched with advanced metering equipment, for example, the CNE Online Premium edition will provide up-to-date data from multiple locations to meet the needs of large power users. A standard version will provide even the smallest business customers with many of the tools available to full-time energy managers.

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Second Place

Progress Energy

Executive/Task Seating

First Place

Herman Miller

Herman Miller’s approach to design is rooted in problem solving; researching the complexities of customers’ needs, exploring materials and processes, and responding to global social and economic trends. At its best, the resulting design is high performing, economic, and artful.

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Second Place

Steelcase

Fire/Life Safety Products

First Place

SimplexGrinnell

SimplexGrinnell believes in working with and supporting customers over the entire life of their fire and life safety systems. In the development of products, the company focuses on installability, usability, serviceability, and affordable migration paths to new technology platforms as key design drivers. The overall goal is to provide best-in-class life safety systems with the lowest life cycle cost of ownership.

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Second Place

Siemens Fire Division

Flooring

First Place

Armstrong

Armstrong Commercial Floor Products offers an integrated portfolio of linoleum, VCT, LVT, hardwood, and vinyl sheet products to provide the right floor for the right application. Armstrong makes it easy to create a total environment using coordinating colors across product categories to facilitate transitions from space to space and strike the perfect balance between design flexibility and a high level of performance.

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Second Place

Lees/Neofloor

Furniture Refurbishing

First Place

Davies Office Refurbishing

Remanufactures office furniture to the highest quality and best value centered on key initiatives including environmental stewardship, aesthetics, ergonomics, form, and function. Davies provides unique programs that utilize the value of existing furnishings toward current or future needs through “product exchange” and “banking.”

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Second Place

Conklin Office Furniture

HVAC/Indoor Air Quality

First Place

Trane

Trane believes providing good indoor air quality is the result of careful attention to controlling contaminant sources, managing humidity levels, proper ventilation, and filtration. Trane has products, systems expertise, and services to help building owners and facility managers deliver air at not only the right temperature but also of the best available quality.

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Second Place

Johnson Controls

Lamps

First Place

GE Lighting

Businesses are driven to pursue energy efficiency because the overall cost of light is what counts—not the initial cost of a lamp. Looking at the overall cost of light, lamps can represent as little as 4% while maintenance and labor costs such as installation can represent as little as 8%. Energy costs, over the life of a lamp, can amount to as much as 88% of the overall cost of light.

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Second Place

Osram Sylvania

Lighting Controls

First Place

GE Lighting

For a building’s occupants, maximum satisfaction comes from having control of their environment. Using the appropriate lighting control system in appropriate locations can satisfy the needs of individual occupants and building managers.

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Second Place

Lutron

Maintenance/Cleaning Products

First Place

JohnsonDiversey

Creating responsible products drives the company’s vision of delivering safe, healthy, high performing facilities for customers. A major part of responsible product development is the creation of products that have minimal impact on cleaning staff, building occupants, and the environment. The company is driven to help customers reduce labor, water, energy and packaging.

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Second Place

Spartan Chemicals

Non-Task Seating

First Place

Steelcase

Cachet was designed to react to the way users sit, and its flexible surfaces and “balanced action rocker” mechanism absorb and evenly distribute weight resulting in continual comfort without the need to adjust manually.

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Second Place

American Seating

Outsourced Services

First Place

Johnson Controls

The Johnson Controls philosophy of outsourced services focuses on understanding customers, their needs, and how the company can align to make their operations more profitable. Johnson Controls is committed to executing everything promised and continuing to diversify and expand company offerings.

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Second Place

Aramark

Paint

First Place

Sherwin-Williams

Sherwin-Williams is dedicated to developing environmentally preferable business processes and products. The company uses sustainable raw materials and is diligent in its consumption of energy and natural resources; in meeting or exceeding government environmental standards; and in giving its customers longer lasting coating options.

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Second Place

Benjamin Moore

Paper Products

First Place

Kimberly-Clark Professional

Concerns about germs have led to a preference among consumers and facility managers for no-touch hand washing systems in the rest room. The Scott Scottfold towel system from Kimberly-Clark Professional provides a touch-free, hygienic solution at a reasonable cost. It is an alternative for customers concerned about battery maintenance and replacement or alteration of existing towel cabinets.

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Second Place

Georgia Pacific

Pest/Bird Control

First Place

Bird-X Inc.

Keeping birds out of a facility eliminates dangerous diseases from birds and droppings, ugly bird mess for employees and customers to see, much less slip and fall in, unnecessary money spent on cleaning, plus frees up employees for more productive tasks and fewer capital expenditures on downed machinery and dropping-corroded structures.

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Second Place

Terminix

Plumbing Fixtures

First Place

Sloan Valve

Sloan Valve Company, the world’s leading manufacturer of water conserving plumbing systems, offers a complete line of sensor operated and manual products, including Flushometers and faucets. Recent additions include Solis solar powered faucets, wireless RF faucets, Waterfree urinals, hand dryers, hand washing and scrub sinks, SloanStone lavatories equipped with sensor operated faucets, and showerheads which can reduce upkeep around the building.

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Second Place

Bradley

Rest Room Accessories

First Place

Kimberly-Clark Professional

To keep rest rooms smelling fresh around the clock, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced the new Kimbare™ Continuous Air Freshener, a powerful, inexpensive, low-maintenance system. It offers reliability and easy maintenance with no moving parts that can break, no expensive dispensers, and no batteries to replace.

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Second Place

Georgia Pacific

Roofing

First Place

BASF Corporation

Before new chemical substances come on to the market, BASF subjects them to comprehensive environmental and toxicological testing and applies for registration with the appropriate authorities in order to reduce possible risks to the environment, while providing high quality products that enhance the quality and durability of facility roofing.

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Second Place

Sarnafil

Security Systems

First Place

ADT Security Systems

Security for a business is no longer an afterthought. It is an integral component in the design and structure of top level operations and a key investment in the future of a business. Properly protecting a business, employees, and other assets is now a top of mind concern and plays a greater role in the every day decision making process.

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Second Place

GE Security

Shredders

First Place

Shred-it

Shred-it is dedicated to being the world’s leading on site document destruction company. Shred-it will achieve this goal on the strengths of its people and by consistently delivering the greatest security, cost effectiveness, convenience, and environmentally friendly service available. Shred-it guarantees facility managers their privacy is secure.

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Second Place

Cummins Allison

Signage

First Place

APCO

Since 1966, APCO has been a leader in the design and manufacturing of modular sign systems. APCO believes that having a good sign system is a key factor in enhancing the image of a facility. Because of this, the company strives to provide attractive and functional signage. Each line is backed with commitment, quality, and innovation.

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Second Place

ASI Signs

Storage

First Place

The HON Company

A recent survey released by HON shows that many companies today are facing a challenge when trying to add talent to their team because their office space is shrinking. Many companies are looking for smart, stylish furniture options, like this flagship lateral filing system that maximizes space and functionality while reflecting corporate philosophy and offering a sense of personality to the office environment.

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Second Place

Spacesaver

Systems Furniture

First Place

Steelcase

Montage is the culmination of years of research on work and the workplace determining how the environment affects morale and productivity as well as attracts better employees and new business; the final result offers a highly customizable exterior paired with flexibility, technology, and tools that help transform workspaces and meet the needs of individual employees.

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Second Place

Herman Miller

UPS

First Place

American Power Conversion

APC provides a comprehensive range of UPS solutions for all types and sizes of data centers and facilities. All of APC’s network-critical physical infrastructure solutions provide increased availability, improved agility, and lower total cost of ownership for IT environments.

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Second Place

Liebert Global

Urinals/Toilets

First Place

Sloan Valve

The Waterfree Urinal has no flushing mechanism and is therefore less expensive to purchase and easier to install than conventional urinals. All that is required is a standard drainage outlet, approximately 20 minutes to install the china housing, and seconds to insert the cartridge. Sloan’s cost-efficient Waterfree Urinal is designed to help save water while eliminating odors associated with waste removal. Each product is designed to reduce the environmental impact of a building while cutting down on the necessary maintenance to keep rest rooms clean and sanitary, which helps facility managers reduce costs.

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Second Place

American Standard

Wall Coverings/Panel Fabrics/Textiles

First Place

DesignTex Inc.

“This year, DesignTex wanted to put an emphasis on new materials and technologies that are driven by sustainability. Our work often focuses on identifying products and finishes that can be combined to form sustainable products that also have high performance characteristics. The company is always searching for materials that are ‘green’ from inception to end of life. Our goal is also to develop products that are suitable for a wide range of applications; from hospitality; to health care; to corporate spaces,” says Leslie Lewitas, executive vice president of sales and marketing for DesignTex.

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Second Place

Mayer Contract Fabrics

Window Film

First Place

CPFilms/LLumar Window Film

LLumar window films are created and specifically designed to meet one or several facility management needs including solar control, energy conservation, safety, security, office and cubicle privacy, signage, aesthetics, etching damage, and graffiti.

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Second Place

V-Kool

Wireless Networks

First Place

Cisco

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network delivers the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment, and management for wireless LANs that organizations expect from their wired LANs.

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Second Place

Sprint